Burkhard Mohr

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Burkhard Mohr (* 1959 in Cologne ) is a German caricaturist , painter and sculptor .

Life

From 1978 to 1984 Mohr studied painting and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . From 1984 to 1986 he continued his studies in sculpture at the Académie-des-Beaux-Arts in Charleroi .

He draws for the Süddeutsche Zeitung , the Handelsblatt, the Bonner General-Anzeiger , the Stuttgarter Zeitung, the Osnabrücker Zeitung (NOZ), the Hamburger Abendblatt, the Sächsische Zeitung and others. a.

According to FR editor Hanning Voigts , a caricature Mohrs published in the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” in 2014, depicting Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg as the world-dominating octopus , used the old image of the “international Jew” in the manner of the “ striker ”: hooked nose, fleshy lips, curly hair and lustful grins. After the caricature was criticized as explosive, Mohr replaced the octopus' face with a blank screen.

Mohr is married and has two children. He lives and works in Königswinter .

Solo exhibitions

  • 1991 Gallery Schön in Bonn
  • 1992 State representation in Rhineland-Palatinate Bonn
  • 1993 Friedrich Naumann Foundation in Königswinter
  • 1993 Däberitz Gallery in Bergisch Gladbach
  • 1994 House of History in Bonn
  • 1995 Castle Museum in Bad Frankenhausen
  • 1996 Thuringian state representation in Bonn
  • 1996 Parliamentary Society in Bonn
  • 1997 Siebengebirgsmuseum in Königswinter
  • 1998 Troisdorf municipal utilities
  • 2000 Bridge Courtyard Museum in Königswinter-Oberdollendorf
  • 2004 Federal Audit Office in Bonn
  • 2004 Orangery, Benrath Palace in Düsseldorf
  • 2005 City Hall Königswinter
  • 2006 Art & Wiese Gallery in Bonn
  • 2007 Permanent presentation of the busts of politicians in the caricature gallery Haus der Geschichte in Bonn
  • 2010 Bridge Courtyard Museum in Königswinter-Oberdollendorf
  • 2010 Gallery Schön in Bonn
  • 2011 Red Penguin in Cologne
  • 2012 Gallery Schön in Bonn
  • 2013 Willy Brandt Forum Unkel / Rhine
  • 2015 and 2017 House of the Paper Industry Bonn

Also participations in exhibitions in Munich, Charleroi, Brussels, The Hague, Rotterdam, London, Berlin, Paris, Dresden, Greiz, Osnabrück, Marburg

Books

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Hanning Voigts: Antisemitism Süddeutsche - No anti-Semites, nowhere! Frankfurter Rundschau from February 26, 2014.
  2. Horst-Dieter Küsters: Burkhard Mohr shows caricatures on the topic "The euro is damaging the crisis" , General-Anzeiger, June 4, 2013